I didn't quite have the luck of shawoho and extraspecialbitter on this one.

It went well until the first apt-get dist-upgrade. It downloaded the fc9 packages, and the first half dozen or so installed nicely. But on perl (if this is important) it hung. Eventually I had to kill -9 apt-get.

After that, any time I or apt-get tried to run rpm, it would hang and I'd have to kill it (though it seemed to work anyhow).

But by then I had many duplicate package installs and several missing dependencies.

I didn't quite have the luck of shawoho and extraspecialbitter on this one.

It went well until the first apt-get dist-upgrade. It downloaded the fc9 packages, and the first half dozen or so installed nicely. But on perl (if this is important) it hung. Eventually I had to kill -9 apt-get.

After that, any time I or apt-get tried to run rpm, it would hang and I'd have to kill it (though it seemed to work anyhow).

But by then I had many duplicate package installs and several missing dependencies.

You sure it was actually hung? Cuz perl is pretty big and can take awhile to install.

one thing I did differently from my previous attempts was to make sure that my fresh 70K install was minimal. On the package selection screen, I de-selected "Web Server" (which I normally always install) and selected "Customize Later" (I typically pull as much as I can from the CD at the onset). My thinking was to give apt as little to upgrade from 70K to 90K as possible, grabbing the custom packages from the 90K repo after the upgrade was completed. I'm not sure if this approach will help you, but it worked for me.

one thing I did differently from my previous attempts was to make sure that my fresh 70K install was minimal. On the package selection screen, I de-selected "Web Server" (which I normally always install) and selected "Customize Later" (I typically pull as much as I can from the CD at the onset). My thinking was to give apt as little to upgrade from 70K to 90K as possible, grabbing the custom packages from the 90K repo after the upgrade was completed. I'm not sure if this approach will help you, but it worked for me.

Yeah, I did the same. I left out X and anything not strictly necessary to perform the upgrade. Maybe I left out too much.

Anyhow, I did it a second time and it worked fine. I feel vindicated -- whatever went wrong on the first try had nothing to do will me killing the apt-get process: perl took a couple of seconds to install this time.

As it stands, the package "fuse" is held back and I came to a strange situation in which doing an init 3 (and an init 1) wouldn't kill the X server. Runlevel 6 was too much for X to handle though ;)

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